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Just two weeks ago, I wrote that the recent escapes of American Matthew Schrier and French-American Jonathan Alpeyrie after months of captivity should give hope to all missing journalists in Syria. We now have two more reasons for hope.

Sunday, the Italian and Belgian governments announced that missing Italian journalist Domenico Quirico and Belgian academic writer Pierre Piccinin were freed. They had been missing for five months.

New York, June 7, 2013--Two French
journalists covering the Syrian conflicthave been reported missing by
their employer, according to news reports. The news comes amid reports that two
other international journalists missing in Syria since April are alive.

New York, April 30, 2013--The Committee to
Protect Journalists is deeply concerned about the well-being of two European
journalists who went missing in western Syria three weeks ago. News reports
identified the journalists as Domenico Quirico, a veteran reporter for the
Italian daily La Stampa, and Pierre Piccinin da Prata, a Belgian academic
and freelance writer, although the accounts did not say if the two were
traveling together.

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The last several months in Italy have seen a few disquieting
attacks against independent media and an investigative reporter. In one case, the
widely distributed independent newspaper La Stampa received an explosive
device in the mail. The Federazione Anarchica Informale/Fronte Rivoluzionario, an anarchist organization, claimed responsibility and ominously noted
that La Stampa was just one of many newspapers that could be a target of the group's war against the state. CPJ
research shows that the state of press freedom in Italy is among the most
volatile in Western
Europe, with violence and legal action sometimes perpetrated by criminal
groups or political actors.